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| Word | Syllables | Categories |
|---|---|---|
| significant | x/xx | Adjective, Adjective |
| important | x/x | Adjective, Adjective |
| prodigious | x/x | Adjective, Adjective |
| fateful | /x | Adjective, Adjective |
| foreboding | x/x | Adjective, Adjective, Noun |
| pompous | /x | Noun, Adjective |
| pretentious | x/x | Adjective, Adjective |
| overblown | xx/ | Adjective, Adjective |
| prophetic | x/x | Adjective, Adjective |
| pontifical | x/xx | Adjective, Adjective |
| ominous | /xx | Adjective |
| lugubrious | x/xx | Adjective |
| portents | /x | Noun |
| ponderous | /xx | Adjective |
| solemn | /x | Adjective |
| sinister | /xx | Adjective |
| doleful | /x | Adjective |
| calamitous | x/xx | Adjective |
| incongruous | x/xx | Adjective |
| baleful | /x | Adjective |
| eerie | /x | Noun |
| sombre | /x | Adjective |
| mournful | /x | Adjective |
| grim | / | Adjective |
| momentous | x/x | Adjective |
| sonorous | /xx | Adjective |
| somber | /x | Adjective |
| menacing | /xx | Adjective |
| ghastly | /x | Adjective |
| apocalyptic | xxx/x | Noun |
| dramatic | x/x | Adjective |
| melodramatic | xxx/x | Adjective |
| dreadful | /x | Adjective |
| grandiose | xx/ | Adjective |
| peculiar | x/x | Adjective |
| startling | /x | Adjective |
| unnerving | x/x | Adjective |
| disquieting | x/xx | Adjective |
| weighty | /x | Adjective |
| mysterious | x/xx | Adjective |
| prosaic | x/x | Adjective |
| cataclysmic | xx/x | Adjective |
| perilous | /xx | Adjective |
| gloomy | /x | Adjective |
| strange | / | Adjective |
| lurid | /x | Adjective |
| bizarre | x/ | Adjective |
| allusive | x/x | Adjective |
| frightful | /x | Adjective |
| alarming | x/x | Adjective |
| bombastic | x/x | Adjective |
| unsettling | x/xx | Adjective |
| terrifying | /xxx | Adjective |
| grotesque | x/ | Adjective |
| stupendous | x/x | Adjective |
| profound | x/ | Adjective |
| frightening | /xx | Adjective |
| overwrought | xx/ | Adjective |
| grisly | /x | Adjective |
| ruinous | /xx | Adjective |
| inauspicious | xx/x | Adjective |
| farcical | /xx | Adjective |
| banal | x/ | Adjective |
| florid | /x | Adjective |
| thunderous | /xx | Adjective |
| paradoxical | xx/xx | Adjective |
| shadowy | /xx | Adjective |
| incomprehensible | xxx/xx | Adjective |
| epochal | /xx | Adjective |
| inscrutable | x/xx | Adjective |
| inexorable | x/xxx | Adjective |
| majestic | x/x | Adjective |
| irksome | /x | Adjective |
| elegiac | /xxx | Noun |
| imperious | x/xx | Adjective |
| insidious | x/xx | Adjective |
| piquant | /x | Adjective |
| felicitous | x/xx | Adjective |
| monstrous | /x | Adjective |
| unpleasant | x/x | Adjective |
| dubious | /xx | Adjective |
| innocuous | x/xx | Adjective |
| obscure | x/ | Adjective |
| poetic | x/x | Adjective |
| tremulous | /xx | Adjective |
| oracular | /xxx | Adjective |
| intimations | xx/x | Noun |
| nebulous | /xx | Adjective |
| unearthly | x/x | Adjective |
| clamorous | /xx | Adjective |
| mystical | /xx | Adjective |
| unpromising | x/xx | Adjective |
| fanciful | /xx | Adjective |
| recondite | /xx | Adjective |
| spooky | /x | Noun |
| prescient | /xx | Adjective |
| high | / | Adjective |
| numinous | /xx | Adjective |
| salient | /xx | Adjective |
| monumental | xx/x | Adjective |
| ostentatious | xx/x | Adjective |
| earnest | /x | Noun |
| grievous | /x | Adjective |
| poignant | /x | Adjective |
| propitious | x/x | Adjective |
| tempestuous | x/xx | Adjective |
| eventful | x/x | Adjective |
| concerning | x/x | Verb |
| deep | / | Adjective |
| threatening | /xx | Adjective |
| salamander | xx/x | Noun |
| solemnity | x/xx | Noun |
| yawn | / | Noun |
| comet | /x | Noun |
| frown | / | Noun |
| omens | /x | Noun |
| clearness | /x | Noun |
| gloom | / | Noun |
| wink | / | Noun |
| apparition | xx/x | Noun |
| stillness | /x | Noun |
| auspicious | x/x | Adjective |
| awesome | /x | Adjective, Noun |
| awful | /x | Adjective, Adverb |
| disconcerting | xx/x | Adjective |
| disturbing | x/x | Adjective |
| melancholy | /xxx | Noun, Adjective |
| saddest | /x | Adjective, Noun |
| milestone | /x | Noun, Verb |
| sorta | /x | Adverb |
| no | / | Noun, Adverb, Adjective |
| literally | /xxx | Adverb |
| anymore | xx/ | Adverb |
| expression | x/x | Noun |
| tell | / | Verb, Noun |
| bulletproof | /xx | Adjective, Verb |
